The road ahead. This month we are sharing information about the TSRC project’s progress and challenges, switching traffic onto the new Postmans Ridge Road realignment at Postmans Ridge and getting ready to install the project’s first set of permanent traffic lights at Gowrie Junction. Read on for the latest Nexus News at mailchi.mp/nexustsrc/hoe9trgo0b-985117. Sign up at www.nexusTSRC.com.au... See MoreSee Less

The Bunya Park Scout Group is all about encouraging the youth of Toowoomba to play an active and constructive role in the community.

Thanks to the Nexus Together sponsorship program, the scouts can continue to abseil, canoe and explore to their hearts content, with funds going towards improving the group’s safety and first aid equipment.

We are expecting a delay of around four to seven months for the completion of the TSRC.

While the project is progressing well overall, the delay is due to a complex geological issue under one of the embankments in the Ballard area.

The issue has resulted in us changing the construction methodology and building the foundation of the embankment from a deeper level. As a result, extensive additional earthworks are now required in a small section of the project.

All other scheduled activities for the project will continue as planned.

We will continue to keep the community informed about these works, and provide updates as the extent of delays and construction impacts are known.

I hope those additional earthworks are ‘bulk earthworks’ im keen to get back on a padfoot roller out there again.......😔

And NOW you discover this????? Why didnt NEXUS consult with locals??? A JOKE!!! Have you discovered the slip underlying yet??? I bet there are underlying issues. !!!! This area is so fragile...i can only foresee so many setbacks in this highly unstable area...

Thank you for keeping us up to date. These things happen then you just have to work throught them. Love seeing the work you all are doing we drive around & check the propgress every couple of months & am very impressed with the work.

That's a shame. I'm so looking forward to those trucks not coming through Toowoomba.

Narelle Barsbyy

Thanks for the updates

Ash Klein

Veronica English 😳

Cant core and drill everywhere. Hit shitty ground on most earthwork projects, cant see all the ground conditions!
The only reason you know they hit crap ground is cause they have a facebook account for the project.. hit crap pretty much every bulk earthworks project i have been on.

Bugger.

Rex

Toni Minton

Any details available on the “complex geological issue” and why extensive additional earthworks are now required???

Would love to hear more about the science of this issue... am a geography teacher using bypass as a case study to examine human and environment.

The TSRC project has four testing labs across site which employ around 30 full time testers. We regularly conduct more than 100 different types of tests on concrete, water, rocks, soil, gravel, steel and bitumen.

In regards to your testing of concrete, how many testing samples that you guys have done in the last 2-3 months have come back showing a fail and/or issues? And in the instances they have come back showing a fail, what is the procedure of correcting it once it has already been poured?
(And yes I have a reason for asking this question which directly relates to concrete that was used for this project. I'm interested to know the response to my original questions first.)

Works start on Toowoomba Second Range Crossing viaduct

Works began today on the Toowoomba Second Range Crossing viaduct – an 800m-long road bridge that will extend from the Lockyer Valley and cut through the Toowoomba Range at Mount Kynoch.

Federal Minister for Infrastructure and Transport Darren Chester said the viaduct would provide the key link between the Lockyer Valley and Toowoomba.

“The viaduct is a critical design feature of the Toowoomba Second Range Crossing (TSRC) project which will provide a safer, faster link in the National Land Transport Network,” Mr Chester said.

“The project involves the construction of a bypass route to the north of Toowoomba, approximately 41 kilometres in length, running from the Warrego Highway at Helidon in the east, to the Gore Highway at Athol in the west.”

Acting Queensland Main Roads Minister Leeanne Enoch said the viaduct was a key part of the $1.6 billion TSRC project.

“The TSRC will not only deliver long-term benefits to Queensland, but will also support an estimated 1,800 direct and indirect jobs in the Toowoomba region,” Ms Enoch said.

“The viaduct will improve safety and productivity for heavy vehicles by eliminating the need to negotiate up to 18 sets of traffic lights in Toowoomba, saving them up to 40 minutes each way. It is an impressive piece of infrastructure that will support the growth of this part of Queensland well into the 21st century.”

Federal Member for Groom Dr John McVeigh welcomed the start of major works on the viaduct.

“The viaduct is integral to the TSRC, and will create an alternative crossing of the Toowoomba Range for trucks, away from the streets of Toowoomba,” Dr McVeigh said.

“When completed, the viaduct will also allow the TSRC to pass over the heritage-listed railway line at its western end without having any impact on rail operations.

“This is just one element of the TSRC project, which is due to be completed and operational by late 2018.”

The Australian Government is providing more than $1.1 billion to the $1.6 billion TSRC project, with the remainder funded by the Queensland Government.